E mail Writing


Email Writing - Concepts
Class - 10th English Proficiency Subjects
 
 
Concept Explanation
 

e-Mail Writing

e-Mail Writing : Even before the advent of the World Wide Web in 1989, email (short for electronic mail) had become a popular means of communication, both formal and informal, in organizations that had intranets. Today it is the world's most preferred means of communication.

Students will find the following guidelines useful:

STYLE: Emails, like their predecessors, letters, can be formal as well as informal. Companies, organizations, government departments and offices use formal email messages, which are written like formal letters for official communication although such communication within an organization can be pretty informal, too, because people working there know each other or that is the norm. Informal emails are personal communication between friends, relatives and, in many cases, even acquaintances, too.

LANGUAGE : While the language of emails, like that of text messages, contains a lot of contractions, abbreviations, slang expressions and offensive words and expressions in real life, you must take care to avoid them in your email messages for you are writing them for examination purposes. In personal emails, however, feel free to use contracted words and colloquial words but avoid abbreviations. Conventions like greetings, salutation, leave taking and closing remain more or less the same as in letter writing except that most email messages significantly curtail or abbreviate them or sometimes even leave them out, especially in personal messages which run into a chain)

An effective email message must

  • Have a clearly stated subject line
  • Place priority information in the beginning
  • Be brief without being rude
  • An email message must not

  • Be too long
  • Be all in Capital letters. This is considered as 'shouting'. However, some words may be capitalised for emphasis
  • Have very confidential or personal information that may fall into wrong hands and cause problems
  • Question: Write an E-mail addressing all students and teachers, and informing them about the fair and informing students about a charity fair that is going to be organised in the school to collect donations for the needy group of people.

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